Day 1. ADO.NET in Perspective

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Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 21 Days ! I hope you find this book both informative and applicable as you embark on using .NET technologies to solve real business problems and build the next generation of enterprise applications. Today's goal is to familiarize you with ADO.NET, how it fits into both the history and evolution of data access in the Microsoft platform, and its place in Microsoft's .NET initiative as a whole.

Today you'll learn:

• The history and technologies used to access data

• The design goals of ADO.NET

• ADO.NET's architecture and context in the .NET Framework

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